A 24-year-old police officer has died a week after he was injured while responding to a car crash.

Northamptonshire PC Faizaan Najeeb was attending a single-vehicle crash in Station Road, Raunds, at around 12.35am on September 19 when he was in collision with a blue VW Polo. PC Najeeb was taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge but died early on Friday, Northamptonshire Chief Constable Ivan Balhatchet said.

A man in his 20s who was arrested at the scene of the collision was bailed pending further investigation. PC Najeeb had served with the response team in Wellingborough since joining Northamptonshire Police.

In line with tradition for officers who have died in the line of duty, his collar number P1967 will be retired in his memory. The Chief Constable said: "Words cannot describe

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